Anonymous: "The less you speak the more you hear."
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Arshak Chobanian: "Leaders with a warm heart and a cool head:
that’s what we need; that’s what all nations need."
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Raffi: "If you want to save your fellow men
you must be prepared to be crucified by them."
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Hovannes Toumanian: "You must burn in order to enlighten."
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Daniel Varoujan: "The fuller the pocket the emptier the heart."
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Djivani: "Solidarity can move mountains."
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Raffi: "There is a school of thought that asserts
our identity has a better chance to survive in a land of backward
barbarians.
There is some truth in that.
Savages exterminate by massacre.
Civilized people employ more civilized means to achieve the same end."
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Anonymous: "You can always count on a rich man’s head
to be as empty as an honest man’s pocket."
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Khachik Ishkhanian: "Why climb to the top
if what awaits you is the abyss?"
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Anonymous: "A thousand friends are too few,
one enemy is too many."
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Raffi: "Even those among us who have taken it upon themselves
to educate the people are nothing but uneducated ignoramuses."
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Krikor Zohrab: "Oppression corrupts everything it touches,
including the highest moral virtues."
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Yeznig Palig: "A hungry vegetarian can be as dangerous as any carnivore."
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Derenik Demirjian: "Every Armenian has another Armenian
whom he considers his mortal enemy."
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Anonymous: "The drowning man has no fear of rain."
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Ruben Ter-Minassian: "Our cultural achievements and intellectual
abilities may be superior to those of our neighbors, but without
solidarity we are bound to be defeated, victimized, and exterminated."
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Anonymous: "Sugar may be sweet but bread is better."
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Yeghishe: "Solidarity is the mother of good deeds,
divisiveness of evil ones."
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Neshan Beshigtashlian: "Suicide: the brave deed of a coward."
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Puzant Granian: "We have many national benefactors
but not a single national writer."
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Anonymous: "In his own home a mouse is a lion."
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Anonymous: "Patience is a tough tree that bears sweet fruit."
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Avedik Issahakian: "The rich reap the fruit, the poor pluck the thorn."
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Hagop Baronian: "Shamelessness: A crossroads that will take you
anywhere."
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Anonymous: "A clear conscience is a soft pillow."
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Yeghia Demirjibashian: "Ethics: Thou shalt not have two homes and two
faces."
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Vahram Papazian: "The greater your worth
the greater the pleasure of the worthless to tear you down."
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Anonymous: "Little men take pleasure in inflating little things to big
things."
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Yeznik Palik: "Church: a shop that sells soap for sins."
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Vahram Papazian: "To be indifferent to crime is to conspire with
criminals."
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Anonymous: "The avaricious person is tormented by greed for more
and fear of less."
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Anonymous: "Trust a new friend as much as you would trust an old enemy."
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Anonymous: "Only God gives without expecting anything in return."
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Anonymous: "If you say what you want to say,
you will hear what you don't want to hear."